Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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